(b Copenhagen, 15 April 1925). Danish architect. He studied at the Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Copenhagen, graduating in 1950.In the mid–1950s he began working with a highly successful competition team that included Max Brüel (b 1927), Jørgen Selchau (b 1923) and Henning Larsen. Among their buildings was Vangebo School (1960), Søllerød, the outcome of a competition in 1958. With its low, tightly knit, clustered forms and simple, rustically expressive use of materials, the school fulfilled the architectural aspirations of its period. Thereafter Bornebusch, Brüel and Selchau produced a number of harmonious and unconstrained projects, including the schools St Jørgensbjerg (1960), Roskilde, and Langemark (1964), Horsens, and seminaries in Holbæk (1967) and Esbjerg (1973). Bornebusch was individually responsible for the last two, as well as for the Danish Embassy (1974) in Beijing. The partnership’s name was also behind one of the last large modernist works in Denmark, the Copenhagen County Hospital (1965) in Herlev: its central 23-storey ward tower must be attributed to Selchau, but Bornebusch designed the nursing school and service building. After the partnership’s dissolution Bornebusch’s designs included a nursing home in Tårnby (1980), the Gymnasium (1981) in Vejen and the Central Library (1982) in Tårnby. A neo-rationalistic approach to form is revealed in the last and is also apparent in his prize-winning project for a new town quarter in Regensburg (1983), Germany.

• Bornebusch, Gehrdt
  • Larsen, Henning